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Do you get an allowance? If you do, how do you earn that allowance? When you earn the allowance, how well do you take care of your money? Do you spend it right away or do you save it?
[readmore]Money is a commodity that is a part of everyday life. In the outside world, that is, the world outside of school, money is the biggest common factor each of us will encounter that will enable us to continue to use our math skills, including the basic skills of addition, subtraction, multiplication, percentages and decimal usage. This quiz will, then, deal with working with money. So let’s do one practice problem before we jump into the quiz.
The problem: If a teacher tells each of their 28 students in the class to buy ten pencils and each pencil costs 12¢, how much money will the class have to spend so that everyone has ten pencils?
Working the problem: The first thing we have to do is to multiply 12¢ by 10 pencils so .12 x 10 = $1.20. (Did you remember that you had to convert the cents into a decimal, i.e., 12¢ = .12?)
Next, we have 28 students so now we multiply $1.20 x 28 = $33.60. Did you remember where the decimal point should be?
Solution: $33.60 is the amount of money it will take in order to have every student in the class to get 10 pencils.
Seems simple enough, right? Good! That means you are now ready to move forward.
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Working the problem: As Ernie bought 8 tickets for 2 rounds of golf, and each round costs $4.25 per person, we need to multiply $4.25 x 8 = $34.00.
Solution: Both rounds will cost Ernie $34.00. Answer (c) is the correct answer |
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Working the problem: The initial cost is $27.50 and now it is $19.25 so we must subtract $27.50 - $19.25 = $8.25
Solution: Kendra will save $8.25 if she buys the blouse today. Answer (a) is the correct answer |
Working the problem: We learned that Carol spent a total of $66.75. Since she bought 3 pairs of shoes, we need to divide $66.75 ÷ 3 = $22.25.
Solution: Each pair of shoes cost $22.25. Answer (d) is the correct answer |
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Working the problem: As the new truck cost $12,865.00 and the used truck cost $9,320.00, we must subtract the used from the new to find out how much more Timothy spent. So, $12,865.00 - $9,320.00 = $3,545.00.
Solution: Timothy spent $3,545.00 more than Alex spent. Answer (b) is the correct answer |
Working the problem: As each girl needs $75.00 to go to camp, we need to see how many raffle tickets will have to be sold to send just one girl. Each raffle ticket costs $1.50 so we divide $75.00 ÷ $1.50 = 50. We have 20 Girl Scouts who want to go to camp so now we multiply 50 x 20 = 1,000. This tells us that they need to sell 1,000 raffle tickets. If they sell 1,000 raffle tickets at $1.50 each, we multiply 1,000 x $1.50 = $1,500.00.
Solution: The Girl Scouts will have to sell 1,000 $1.50 raffle tickets and it will take $1,500.00 for each of the 20 girls to go to camp. Answer (c) is the correct answer |
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Working the problem: As Michael is saving $8.00 per week, we divide $176.00 ÷ 8 = 22.
Solution: It will take Michael 22 weeks to save $176.00. Answer (a) is the correct answer |
Working the problem: As Mrs. Garland spent $194.85 buying 15 plants, we divide $194.84 ÷ 15 = $12.99.
Solution: Each plant cost $12.99. Answer (d) is the correct answer |
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Working the problem: We know that Gail bought two items so, in order to find out how much she spent, we need to add the two items as follows:
$1,371.00 + $3,396.00 = $4,767.00 Solution: Gail spent $4,767.00. Answer (c) is the correct answer |
Working the problem: Here we must first multiply so for the cheeseburgers we multiply $1.29 x 13 = $16.77. For the hamburgers we multiply $1.09 x 9 = $9.81 and for the fries we multiply $.89 x 21 = $18.69. Now we need to add so:
$16.77 +$9.81 + $18.69 = $45.27. Solution: It will cost $45.27 to buy all of the items. Answer (b) is the correct answer |
Solution: Each magazine costs $3.04.
Answer (b) is the correct answer